Hassan Ali Mohamud

Hassan Ali Mohamud (1962) was a Somali-American imam.

Biography
Hasan Ali Mohamud was born in 1962 in Mogadishu, Somalia, and he attended the Arab-run Banaadir High School before gaining law degrees from the National University of Somalia and another university in Cairo, Egypt. In 1996, he moved to the United States and settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming a local imam. In September 2013, he condemned al-Shabaab and Islamic extremism after the Westgate Mall massacre, and he actively campaigned against youth radicalization.